COULD RAPTURE EXIST? - Bioshock Science Ep. 1

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To put it bluntly, Bioshock's Rapture is a technological nightmare to design, but in this video, we are going to assume that not only does Rapture already exist, it is designed and built the exact way it is portrayed in the game…
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Although the water pressure on Rapture would be extreme, if it was located a few hundred miles north-east, water depths could be manageable at around 760 meters. Manipulation of Archimedes's Principle at this depth could keep the whole city afloat. Take the Freedom Tower for example. Assuming it was water tight, Freedom Tower would actually float. In fact, the water pressure above the tower plus the force of gravity is only a little more than that of the buoyancy force. Not only would the structure not get crushed from the water above, it would actually be ⅔ lighter than if it was on the surface. Though bringing it down to the ocean floor and bolting it down is an additional problem.
I have been somewhat misleading however. Lateral pressure would be immense, causing it to crush like a hot can is cold water. There are design considerations that could be made, but at this scale, the effectiveness would be questionable. Not to mention, erosion would eat away at the metal and concrete, and joints would begin to leak. Basically, repairs would be a logistical nightmare.
For a modern city to function under water, a few considerations need to be made. Atmospheric conditions need to be maintained, food production needs to be sustainable and energy production needs to be stable. In the game, Hephaestus is a power facility that uses the real life, naturally occurring, geothermal vents found in the region to produce electricity. Geothermal activity can be a problem structurally, but in terms of heat and energy, it’s the only thing keeping Rapture alive. Geothermal activity is important to Rapture because at its depths, the water temperature can be sub-zero and no natural light can penetrate. Geothermal heat could be used to produce steam to run turbine power plants but it can also be piped to living spaces for space heating.
According to the game, Arcadia is the living, breathing lungs of Rapture filled with lush forests and abundant plant life tasked with generating the life-sustaining oxygen the city needs. In the game it’s noted that Arcadia is responsible for all of the oxygen for Rapture, but It’s unclear what the population of Rapture is. Assuming the population was around three million, that many people would exhale 2.7 million kilograms of CO2 every day which is equivalent in mass to about 540 fully grown elephants. At those levels, Rapture would needs over 45 million large trees to absorb it all. Even though there likely wouldn’t be enough plant life to sustain the environment, there are supplementary means for oxygen production. Looking towards the International Space Station for inspiration, electrolysis of water is the process of splitting water into its elementary parts of oxygen and hydrogen. The oxygen is used to breath and the hydrogen could be used in desalination plants to produce fresh water.
No utopia could survive forever and Rapture is no exception. Rapture could never survive, the ocean was always going to reclaim it. Although the signs of erosion are becoming more pronounced, Rapture was destroyed from the inside out. Rapture suffered from one fundamental flaw, a flaw that was intrinsic to it’s nature, Rapture was isolated. What destroys civilization faster than erosion are people in confined spaces with nowhere to escape. It’s no surprise that human nature got the best of Rapture, in fact there are numerous studies on the psychology of human isolation and confinement. Psychological health is a major concern for example on manned missions to Mars.

[@BOSRapture]

It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.

[@Fleetfoot]

Would've lived at Rapture.... that is before drug abuse taking place all over

[@Fleetfoot]

Lasspeng "When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old Spaniard did with a brush?" And that's how a crazy is born.

[@Mirinovic]

Afrodite walking teh hall, shivering Staimen, Staimen....

[@damnskippy1988]

Rocket epic comeback

[@MUSTASCH1O]

Andrew Ryan Spot on haha

[@eggsandwich5278]

Dammit. i took civil engineering for nothing

[@mroutlaw3874]

😂

[@mariocardenas239]

Are you serious if so can was the degree worth it?

[@thefreshprincer5587]

@@mariocardenas239 no

[@humanwolf1984]

Well just don't forget that it is just option if you did build a under water city it doesn't mean that it would end up like what he says. 😇

[@SnowKnowBu]

same :c

[@glennfriddle1674]

The city dose have leakes, and the big Daddies are always repairing them, also there was a part in the first bioshock, with an audio tape, stating the if the water wasn't heated, the pipes would bust with frozen water.

[@kalash9467]

Can we make Big daddies? :0

[@someonerichardson5330]

@@kalash9467 um I don’t m ow if you know how they are made but it’s large diving suits obviously but then humans are taken and their skin is grafted to fit on the lining of the suit of the big daddy and along with that the person before this undergoes a voice box modifier installing a voice box into your vocal cords along with being peppered with pheromones for the little sisters so um no probably not

[@heriksalvadorianreacts6646]

@Casswury Sinking? So eventually the city will fall or Dissappear.?

[@YukimareThePsion]

@Casswury Not really sinking on its own. Rapture was stable enough to not sink on the platform it was seated on. The genuine problem was that Sofia Lamb, in response to Subject Delta and Eleanor's imminent escape and destruction of her idea of utopia, went off her nut and started setting explosives all over the Persephone area. that combined with the damages caused by Sofia's attempts to kill Subject Delta, the Big Sisters butchering the place in an attempt to kill him (As early as the first chapter, a Big Sister slices the viewing glass apart in a room, flooding various areas of Rapture in an attempt to kill Delta. Too bad for her, Subject Delta's diving suit works.), and when Sofia set off the bombs on the lifeboat Delta and Eleanor in an attempt to kill them, it did enough damage to crush and sink that area of Rapture into an ocean trench. Still, though, the materials used by Rapture are not the most durable (Aluminum in place of steel, for example), leading to it eventually being crushed by the weight of the ocean regardless.

[@lilsauceplays6903]

Bouncing off that I also remember that in a hidden space u can find a tape that talks about the pipes and that it is almost impossible to start fixing it when it starts leaking so ye the city isn’t perfect

[@walteracevedo5105]

The coordinates are for only the lighthouse, the entrance to the city. The city itself is just within it's radius.

[@theimperviousfirecracker7934]

Regardless of weather it's possible or not, Bioshock's Rapture is the #1 fictional location I would visit.

[@damianvelez3396]

Befire everyone went insane, or after?

[@theimperviousfirecracker7934]

@@damianvelez3396 take a wild guess.

[@user-ff5if6rs2n]

@@theimperviousfirecracker7934 after?

[@user-ff5if6rs2n]

(Like me because I am insane)

[@mrsubject1]

I'd read the book for more insight, according to it there were only around 50,000 people at the height of rapture and even then it was getting cramped

[@GabiN64]

That makes sense. Rapture was more of a false city made to look as grand as New York. More like a failed theme park.

[@Thebluegillwhisperer]

Thank you that’s what I was thinking too 3mil is WAY too many people

[@rjd-kh8et]

The psychological issues due to isolation and lack of sun are why Sofia Lamb was brought to Rapture. Not that it did much good.

[@ohhdahveed3561]

rjd1922 well technically the reason everyone went crazy was because of the Adam drug people weren’t able to host large amount of Adam and they got addicted to it and they went crazy

[@1810jeff]

@@ohhdahveed3561 Which is pretty funny become some people use rapture as an argument against libertarian civilizations when the in game reason for raptures failure is literal magic

[@1810jeff]

@fiddle I would have to look further into the story to see how true this is but the interesting thing is that a lot of the problems of rapture could have been solved by automation which would lead me to believe that if enough time would have passed without a disaster they would have been fine.

[@InitialPC]

@fiddle If not for Fontaine violating the principles of objectivism for his own gain, ADAM would not have become so widely used and the Civil War would not have happened, same goes for Ryan turning against his beliefs at the end of such war.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@InitialPC But that’s the problem with a society being “too free” eventually some opportunists will come in and disrupt it and it falls apart. Granted this is arguably also possible in a totalitarian society as well, but the whole free aspect makes it appealing as a target for an opportunist

[@CZpersi]

The water leaks, shown at many points in the game must have flooded the city in seconds. I cannot imagine the size of pumps that would be needed to maintain oxygen pressure.

[@user-ff5if6rs2n]

That’s why we will make big daddies to do repairs.

[@mirzataufikurahman5478]

"A man build, A parasite asks where's my share?"

[@imperialjapan7865]

Andrew Ryan Says "You are never too late to answer that question

[@BaneHydra]

I like this quote because both socialists and capitalists would agree with this, they'll just disagree on who the parasite is.

[@Stringboiler]

A man chooses, a slave obeys

[@MrHerrJacobsen]

hefeshles?

[@fobfansrar4536]

I was gonna comment the same thing XD

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[@whoisme9117]

You still couldn't pronounce it.

[@randyparsons3188]

A shallow city with wide and not tall buildings would work better, maybe even have half of the taller buildings stick out of the oceans. Oxygen would not be a problem, simply pump the air through connections from building to building, and sunlight could come in to parts of the buildings and even redirected to the darker locations underwater with fiber optics. Rust would be a problem and pressure and weather, but those could be overcome. Food and waste would be very large problems, would likely need to ship those in and out and produce only a little food in the city.

[@minecraft425]

Or screw it all and go with star gate atlantas method of a dome, they distribute better than arches and could probably be better maintained and help maintain natural cycle through electric light/light strips on ceilings. ... Would still be rather enormous cost but probably much easier focus maintenance

[@Unownshipper]

True, but the whole point was that the city was supposed to be a secret from the rest of the world. Out of sight, out of mind.

[@Mirinovic]

out of prasites :-)

[@mgabrysSF]

That and O2 levels in the water isn't constant with depth so corrosion varies greatly.

[@sobasage1958]

"Hepheschluss" Bless you?

[@haron521]

💀

[@FirstNameLastName-tg3rc]

(3:30 In the book the population is 20,000. As to the games? I've seen speculation that varies from that to 7.5 million - if that tells someone something.

[@PersonPlaceThing1]

You should do a video on Battlefield 1. "What if WWI actually happened"

[@nathanvaynriber]

Nice

[@gilberttheaircraftcarrier]

In what context?

[@MTR702]

I think it was more of a joke, at least I hope it was lol

[@PersonPlaceThing1]

Yes this is a joke. What are the chances of a World War ever actually happening really? It's just such craziness

[@hollowhoagie6441]

@@PersonPlaceThing1 thank god a world war never happened!

[@samuelwhite8895]

So lets ignore the fact they have managed science based advances that would be impossible. Stands to reason if they manage to make things like plasmids and adam then it stands to reason they could manage it

[@tbotalpha8133]

No, not really. There's no evidence in the game that Rapture's materials science or structural engineering was in any way superior to that of the 1940s, or today. They had advanced robotics and genetic science, but without impossibly strong materials or some as-yet-unheard-of architectural method for managing crushing ocean pressures, Rapture's soaring skyline simply could not exist the way it does in-game.

[@uiscepreston]

We know from Infinite that the lighthouses and cities are not based in contemporaneously concurrent reality. They are instead purgatorial reiterations that are in fact constructed and refined by a highly-advanced sentience as moralistic experiments. They are basically controlled simulations governed by clearly superior technology. Any arguments involving the civil engineering and building materials known in this universe at the apparent time-frames of the games are moot. Rapture and Columbia have never existed in this reality at those historical reference points - or any other. Nor could they still. They are made elsewhere from science and things that allow them to be built there for their intended purpose.

[@mattkingsbury9459]

It's explained in the novel that the tunnels you travel through all around the city are composed of a "molecular bonding" of glass and metal to keep out the pressure, but the fact is that even with technology as advanced as Rapture's, they still couldn't hold back the ocean indefinitely. As for other technologies, you also have to suspend disbelief to a point--you the player are expected to believe that Rapture is actually built above a very particular ocean trench, which contains some kind of undiscovered energy/radiation that caused the ADAM sea slugs to mutate in the first place, thus starting the chain reaction of scientific discoveries that would result in Rapture's downfall.

[@pauldalia84]

Population 3 million ? What game did you play???

[@pie197]

Pablo D'Angelo he's talking before

[@ultra7021]

@@pie197 peak rapture had 100 000 ppl living in it at best

[@ayla6769]

@@ultra7021 nope ; 50k at MOST

[@mw9688]

Kawaii Narwhal There was at least 6

[@ayla6769]

@@mw9688 6 what lmfao. 60k??

[@4thTriumvir]

"Hepheshalus" I'm out...

[@MTR702]

Let's be fair, that's a really difficult word to say. I'm an engineer, not a linguist.

[@bruhbbawallace]

SpacePak It's three syllables fam, "ha-fest-us".

[@the.sketch.projekt8851]

@@MTR702 it’s the name of the Greek God.

[@Kodama867]

@@MTR702 It's ha-fest-us, as in the Greek God of Fire and the Forge.

[@rsdrds4037]

'Exasturbated' was the one that got me XD

[@dilenng7858]

Damn, screw reality :/

[@MTR702]

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[@haydenward082]

One of the things he mentioned about I thought was interesting was getting oxygen into rapture. I was a submariner and one of the things that have to be managed is not only the amount of oxygen in the air but the pressure it created. You'd be surprised the kinds of designs had to be implemented because of just 100+ men breathing and having to bring in oxygen. You have to have a way to get rid of the CO2 and other dangerous gases before you think about bringing in oxygen or the pressure inside is too great. Now instead of 100+ people, imagine pressure regulation for 3 million.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

The game stated it was only around 50,000 as a generous upper estimate.

[@haydenward082]

@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes Great job using the first reply on google to copy paste a reddit answer on a 5 year comment. If you also remember, Mr. Pedantic, that 50,000 was just the initial minds picked by Ryan to found his glorious empire. The idea was to have a city comparable to Chicago or New York but only the best minds could go. The population of Chicago or New York in the 1950's teetered between 3-5 million. Rapture was completed in 1951 and was *capable* of holding 3 million+ even if it only sustained 50000. It all fell apart before it could get rolling.

[@MTR702]

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[@thatguywithoutahead]

In the book "Bioshock Rapture" they try to explain how they build it and it sounds quiet logical but my english isnt good enough to explain it here. But if you want to check it out do so ^^" (In the book there are buildings wich "scratch the waves" and Rapture isnt as deep in the ocean as I thought while playing the game (aroud 200m). They use somekind of mirrors to bring "natural light" into rapture. They didnt build rapture under water but sink the buildings after shipping them there.)

[@thatguywithoutahead]

In the book "Bioshock Rapture" they try to explain how they build it and it sounds quiet logical but my english isnt good enough to explain it here. But if you want to check it out do so ^^" (In the book there are buildings wich "scratch the waves" and Rapture isnt as deep in the ocean as I thought while playing the game (aroud 200m). They use somekind of mirrors to bring "natural light" into rapture. They didnt build rapture under water but sink the buildings after shipping them there.)

[@TheGamingSyndrom]

+InZaneGamer wasnt it something about Underwater vulcanos or something?

[@kylekish2010]

InZaneGamer m

[@zabenjamin2396]

SpacePak I

[@engelrott]

population of rapture: Splicers

[@bobspence5322]

i think the location of the city being so deep underwater resonates with me as a gritty metaphor.. its a game you have to live to understand the symbolic structures are there not for science nerds but for psychology geeks.

[@MrHalo087]

would you kindly?

[@M4rtyMcFly21]

Spoiler alert HUR DUR

[@angelisaacfloresmendoza3399]

I've got the dream to build a city underwater that's why I wanted to study Civil Enginner, so this video gives me an idea to what should I consider. It sounds impossible but maybe one day I could make my dream come true even if it is at a smaller scale I would be satisfied

[@brendenlee9043]

How's your dream going?

[@angelisaacfloresmendoza3399]

Not gonna lie, i didn't remember this comment so that means i haven't started yet, but i'm still studying civil engineer and with the knowledge i've acquired i can safely tell you that my dream is a complete challenge (there's just A LOT to think about like the video said), but my propose here is build something not too deep so it could be "easier" and the purpose i want to give to it is that in case the whole sea levels rises more, we're gonna need to improve our buildings to water i think maybe we could even survive extreme heat if we live underwater but nowadays i think the technology and science is still in very early steps, we also need to find better materials that can handle corrosion and also think about how we could provide the city with the basic needs, thank you for remember me my dream, i'm gonna be working, exploring and thinking about it from now on. @@brendenlee9043

[@CaptainMartinWalker]

​@@brendenlee9043he woke up

[@MaseraSteve]

​@@brendenlee9043hahah just look at the salary.. either you got a really rare type of silver tongue that could convince upper class folks or the "easiest" you need to be some arab trillionaire prince yourself for that

[@paynsiclesproductions9316]

It was not impossible to build Rapture underneath the ocean. It was impossible to build it anywhere else

[@aaronramen5926]

“It has been brought to my attention that some citizens have discovered ways to... "hack" the vending machines. I should not need to remind each and every citizen of Rapture that free enterprise is the foundation upon which our society has been established. Parasites will be punished”. - Andrew Ryan

[@CaptainMartinWalker]

That's hypocritical lol

[@V1ktorvaugn]

something about some of Andrew Ryan's best quotes that I just find so amazing

[@DougUnfunny]

rapture would not have 3 million people. Most big cities today don't have 3 million people only los angeles or new york come close. and if this is set in 1940-50's then the population would extremely less.

[@iTracti0n]

Chicago has exactly 3 million people

[@tmkaynyc9965]

GamingEchelon Chicago has EXACTLY 3 million people.... yea you sound dumb just stfu what city do you know has an exact number of millions in it? Stop trying to be smart

[@iTracti0n]

Xpert Player Keyboard warrior ass nigga 😂. Who pissed in your Cheerios.

[@tmkaynyc9965]

GamingEchelon I was correcting you because your trying to be smart but your giving wrong info

[@iTracti0n]

Xpert Player Trying to be smart 😂? You just took the words too seriously, you're just trying to be important.

[@MTR702]

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[@xyhmo]

It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.

[@kaleljon3439]

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[@mohamedanthony7491]

@Kalel Jon I watch on FlixZone. You can find it on google =)

[@aviiker1351]

@Mohamed Anthony Yup, I've been watching on Flixzone for years myself :D

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[@mattkingsbury9459]

Great video, love how you explore the question of "Could Rapture actually exist?" I actually feel like there's too much of it for one video, and would love to see you go even further into the science and psychology of Rapture in additional videos (science of the sea slugs and ADAM, for example, or the Big Daddies and Little Sisters, along with how Andrew Ryan's own philosophy brought the city crashing down).

[@KrimboPlays]

Jeez what a great video, expected to see way more than 15,000 views. You'll make it though with quality like this

[@MTR702]

Yeah I hope so. It's a grind at times!

[@MTR702]

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[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

Even if some light made it through, it would still be depressing as hell.

[@JonathanRSalcedo]

This video was incredible! I really enjoyed it and will definitely subscribe!

[@midget_spinner8449]

Does it bother anyone else that the game is set in 1960 but the atmosphere and art is clearly 1940s based

[@MrChopstsicks]

Best Kinda Mess a little but doesn’t bothers me. Though with a small population and cut off from the outside world’s influences. The art could’ve just been on a stalemate or altered version. If I remember correctly, the people suffer from isolation and Andrew hired a psychologist/psychiatrist. Which is where the problems started.

[@L.Mandrake]

But Rapture was founded in 1946 and its inhabitants have never seen the rest of the world since. With a small population, it makes sense that its aesthetics have not mutated much.

[@lunasa4387]

@@MrChopstsicks nah the Adam dependency is what drove people crazy, the psychologist was brought in as a precaution

[@stm7810]

Yes please! That was great and thanks for telling me about the study!

[@Mod3rn0ccult1st]

4 years later. Still face palming on the inaccuracy with the numbers of both the depth and population of Rapture with this one. Also the wrong pronunciation of Hephaestus didn't help.

[@greennorthstar]

I love this! Such high quality videos! Keep it up small socks! :)

[@MTR702]

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[@sillkthashocker]

It's weird Bioshock 4 is actually in production right now

[@tientje98]

im gonna replay the game this weekend after watching this. in my first playthrough i actually forgot about the whole upgrade mechanic (not the weapon one), so i really should replay it.

[@henryjb1572]

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I remember man!

[@gilberttheaircraftcarrier]

With this much quality within your content, its really surprising that there is barely much public attention that is being sought. Like, that has gotta be unbelievable.

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I get offers from larger channels (i.e Top Trending, ShoddyCast, HaloFollower) but the deals are usually very exclusive and I don't have time to make videos for them and videos for you guys so I usually pick you guys. That's why I've stayed so independent. The medium size channels don't think I have enough subscribers to be in their "click" or colab and the big channels was to bring me into their channel. So I'm between a rock and a hard place.

[@The.Home.Cinema.Engineer]

yes more bioshock videos!

[@actofdepression]

Best Video about the Physics of Rapture yet! Please one for Columbia!

[@futurecyber01]

Rapture city is amazing 😉 and he forgot to mention Minerva’s den Rapture Super computer responsible for pumping air through the city and control every door 🚪 and cámaras 🎥

[@Duyn]

The Bioshock book actually goes over some of these issues and questions

[@michaelp431]

“Hafishless”

[@DemonBoy1155]

I would love for this to happen an underwater city just amazing i love bioshock especially bioshock 2

[@veroxic]

that voice crack around 4 minutes hahaha. Great video though!

[@mariellepra5876]

Dorked out on this wholeheartedly; awesome video

[@MrHarper2010]

Really interesting and thought provoking video.

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Came for the small socks, stayed for the A+ content. Just earned a sub mate.

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Double thumps up for the hard work on editing, when is the Colombia video coming? can't wait!

[@DragonXslash4]

awesome video man

[@blyatthunder5692]

No, you wont destroy my dream of building Rapture. I cant hear youuuu

[@Spinnie1]

Rapture had an entire computer dedicated on maintenance on rapture called The thinker.

[@terrorofdeath3280]

This video was awesome!

[@ChadMojito]

really cool video, props

[@Joanarkj]

great video. nice animations, nice explanation.

[@MTR702]

Thanks!

[@captainjackpugh6050]

Repairs are maintained to keep the Golden Gate Bridge up so how would it be a problem to keep repairs for a tower under water

[@tasosm.380]

I would love to see another video on rapture!

[@seanfugina208]

Remember when you go into the lighthouse in the beginning and you go int the submarine that takes you to rapture

[@ayla6769]

3 years later, and I'm just finding this now - but, to put the facts straight, Rapture is only 200 meters below the surface, and the population of Rapture varies between 20,000 - 50,000. And destruction of the city wouldn't be a problem ; Big Daddies ( humans grafted into massive diving suits, practically immune to the pressure ) are constantly repairing the city.

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Man your videos are just so good 😎

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Thanks man! I appreciate it.

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You have really good videos. You deserve a lot more views. Watch this channel people!

[@MTR702]

Thanks man!

[@sarahsayshello9726]

if it existed I would go there even knowing what would happen

[@namarow]

Amazing!

[@dominicevery9891]

defiantly would love to see another video on bioshock maybe after a few o these some on bio infinite ;)

[@MTR702]

Cool thanks for the feedback

[@williamgarcia356]

+SpacePak by Mike Ridolfi you deserve more subs you put some work and time into your vids

[@mina7572]

Regardless of what the lore might say. The length of travel time down to rapture and the fact that you can see out of the windows at all means it really isn't that deep.

[@PrinceApollo117]

Easier solution, we build it on land, then deliver it to its proper coordinates.

[@MrAskmannen]

Setting aside the supposed fantastical properties of Ryanium, it would really be smarter to construct rapture as a series of spheres rather than making underwater skyscrapers to circumvent pressure as much as possible, would it not? Also the population of rapture is at most 25k iirc

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

I have a hard time believing that millions could go there without some kind of suspicion. Also in Bioshock 1 & 2 you see things that don’t happen thousands of meters under the ocean: Bioshock 2 has a Great White Shark and kelp, you don’t find those 1 mile underwater, unless Rapture as a whole moved up to the surface in between Bioshock 1 & 2

[@MrAskmannen]

@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes I guess you could say that we know less about the depths of the oceans than the surface of Mars and that Great Whites might sometimes go to those depths. Or you could say it's a Greenland Shark. Or you could say that Rapture was planned to be built that deep, but they changed their minds and built it higher.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@MrAskmannen I’m curious if the modules making up Rapture can be moved. The Persephone prison facility in Bioshock 2 could be detached and dropped, which makes one wonder if other buildings or modules that make up Rapture could be raised or lowered beneath the ocean.

[@MrAskmannen]

@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes sinking is easy, but raising stuff back up would be nearly impossible. I know Elizabeth got that columbia floating device in buried at sea, but as far as i know that's the only time it's ever been used in rapture. Also, each part of rapture isnt self sustaining, they all need to be connected to hepheastus to get electicity, and to arcadia to get oxygen

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

@@MrAskmannen Elizabeth in Burial at Sea went to Columbia to steal the Lutece Particles, or antigravity particles, to raise that part but yes, maybe Rapture had varied depths or just wasn’t as super deep as some thought? Guess the game doesn’t always say

[@WesternGopnik1]

If you read the book, it explains on some of the technological advance that were made with Ryan industries to make rapture possible

[@Artomedics]

great video, where you get the footage of the city?

[@joshualaisequilla7264]

A channel with a great future.

[@berrybluebird3842]

I think it would work if you built a bunch of underwater biodomes in Lake Michigan.

[@melody3741]

So pressurize the air inside like they do on existing submarines. This is extremely obvious.

[@FusionTechCinema]

What a party pooper

[@redneckrancher]

Cool video liked it

[@SpaccaVagone]

Would you kindly make another video about Rapture? :D

[@MTR702]

I see what you did there "/

[@Linguini1996]

I feel that No Mans Sky could provide you with a good amount of video ideas. That or Titanfall 2. Awesome video Mike and keep up the great work!

[@MTR702]

Yeah I have some ideas for No Mans Sky. Still brainstorming for Titanfall 2

[@Linguini1996]

+SpacePak by Mike Ridolfi I wish I could help. I'll think of some video ideas and I'll let you know.

[@haljordan7401]

The pressure in the city wouldn't kill you.

[@captainbubbles5509]

I figured there was only like 100k people 150 max, 3mil seems way too much, you have to remember everyone in rapture had to be invited and screened.

[@Saboteur4]

If you notice the game actually takes in consideration the reality of an underwater city. Obviously it's Science Fiction but if you pay attention to how Rapture was before the Civil War in 58'. Then you'd know that accidents happened all the time. Constant repairs were needed for pressure leaks. Things just didn't work like they should have. Big Daddy's were made to keep up the constant repairs but it was never enough. Even after the fall of Rapture you see the city falling apart. Just naturally.

[@cosmic-cat6315]

2:21 Did he say hefeshalis?

[@pinacoladatv808]

you deserve way more subs!!

[@MTR702]

Thanks for the kind comment!

[@jetjaguarproductions3670]

the lighthouse is located at these coordinates, the real city is quite a distance away, as the bathysphere takes a while to get close to the city once it has descended the lighthouse station.

[@thecoolman46766]

63° 2' N, 29° 55' W the coordinates of rapture...now someone needs to record them sea-diving at the coords

[@zabenjamin2396]

KillingSpree2017 lol

[@markspqr]

Excellent work ...

[@MTR702]

Thanks :D

[@TK42715]

2:22 Hefeshlus? tehehe good video though, very informative.

[@fever-blade8343]

What I want to know is if you could build a small theme-park sized rapture in a deep lake or into the sea off the coast (not the ocean floor). Could someone build a Rapture attraction that was submerged to simulate the feel of being under the sea?

[@smith549371]

Yes that would be pretty easy and I would love to visit it

[@fever-blade8343]

It would be a dream come true. It could have a theater, restaurants, a mall... It should have parts that are tidied up like Rapture in its prime, but the best parts would be furnished to intentionally look decrepit and post-Rapture war.

[@TheCrazyBrittish]

Have you seen Game Theory's video on Rapture? He says it's actually possible and was possible back then, he did loads of research on where it could be done and what materials used for the walls and everything as well as how they could get resources such as geothermal resources etc.

[@creampop8553]

While it was theoretically feasible, he also said that the geometry and material used in building the city would make them wear out quickly.

[@fleskhjertafan93]

Creepopolous this is true however engineers and later on the big dadies were in charge of upkeep in both games are seen keeping rapture air tight until the events of the rapture civil war the city was well maintained

[@creampop8553]

Shion Sonozaki Yeah, but they're just keeping it water tight. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the most maintenance they do outside is just fixing things like neon lights. The stark angles and statues scattered around Rapture would eventually erode away, and I'm sure that there are more stable shapes than what you see in Rapture.

[@thegoldencrown57]

Hey I like using logic on video games myself but it’s a video game. Where your adventure begins and your imagination never ends. It’s not supposed to be realistic it was meant to have fun

[@somepacificislander2502]

How do you edit so good

[@MrArchibaldwitwiki]

My dude likes to lift his head then restart.

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

According to the book, Raptures population is only 15 thousand while the viral game for Bioshock 2 'There's something in the sea' indicates it's as high as 500 thousand. The latter I'm more inclined to believe.

[@Unownshipper]

Ha-fesh-less? Wow you butchered the name "Hephaestus." That's just a nit-pick though. This is a really great video, thanks for doing all the research and sharing it with us.

[@Foerdi94]

Question: Is there no Video in which Scenes where one just walks around in Rapture when it was still intact just for the sake of the atmosphere?

[@cheekypop]

rapture's population capacity is 20,000 nowhere near 3 million

[@qqkthxbye]

Make a video about the floating city of Columbia from Bioshock: Infinite now! :D

[@MTR702]

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[@qqkthxbye]

Ow YISSS! Can't wait for it! Great video btw. :) I love the bioshock series. I hope they will release another one soon.